Monthly Archives: April 2016

With only superhero movies or 15 certificate films as alternatives, my daughter and I opted for the Disney live action remake of Jungle Book. It was more interesting and engaging than either of us had anticipated. Firstly, the CGI is mostly convincing. This allows Disney to finally make the kind… Continue reading →

Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of JG Ballard’s dystopian novel is all about the aesthetic. At the start of many of those found footage movies there is often some cheesy text along the lines of “this footage was found in the basement, and has been edited together to tell the story”. Although… Continue reading →

This isn’t a current release (it’s 2013), but it’s my blog so I’ll allow myself the occasional one that I missed at the time. Set in Australia after a meteor has wiped out Europe and a fire storm is heading their way, it can be viewed as an update of… Continue reading →

Difficult to say anything about this film without big SPOILER, and it’s better to see it without any prior knowledge. So don’t read on if you think you might go and see it. This film has Will (Logan Marshall-Green) going back to the house where his son died, for a… Continue reading →

The heist movie is a sub-genre that, like England in a World Cup, continually fails to deliver against even rather modest standards. It should be easy to make a decent heist movie, all I want is the basic elements: getting the gang together, planning the heist, a tense set-piece robbery… Continue reading →